Antonio Catolfi is Full Professor of Cinema, Photography, Radio, Television, and Digital Media (academic field PEMM-01/B, GSD 10/PEMM-01, formerly L-ART/06 - Macroarea 10/C1). Since 2007, he has held a permanent position at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in the Department of Italian Language, Literature, and Arts in the World (since January 1, 2022), previously in the Department of Language Sciences and the Department of Human and Social Sciences from 2007 to 2021. His research has primarily focused on television, digital media, social networks, journalism, production models for cinema and television, professions in cinema and television, cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, political cinema, contemporary Italian cinema, and both analogue and digital photography. A registered journalist since 1991, he worked in the Television Production Division of RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in Rome from 1988 to 2007 across various television programs. He graduated in Sociology from the University of Urbino with a thesis on live television broadcasting in journalistic communication (December 18, 1993, graduating with 110/110) and completed advanced studies in Communication Sciences at the University of Siena on the role of the news producer (July 11, 1995). He held a research fellowship in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Siena (2002/2003). He holds a PhD in the History of Political Parties and Movements from the University of Urbino (March 12, 2004) with a doctoral thesis entitled “Televised Political Forums as a New Form of Communication, 1960-1963.” He was Adjunct Professor at the University for Foreigners of Perugia from 2001 to 2007 and, subsequently, from 2007 to 2025 at the same institution, has served as Associate Professor of Cinema, Photography, Television, and Digital Media. His teaching has included: Digital Photography and Multimedia Production (Master’s Degree, Compsi, Year II); History of Cinema and Audiovisual Cultures (Bachelor’s Degree, Lici/DHI, Year III); Workshop on Project Design Languages (Master’s Degree, Compsi, Year II); Languages and Techniques of Digital Media (Bachelor’s Degree, Comip, Year II); Social Networks and Gamification for Marketing (Master’s Degree, Compsi, Year I). From 2018 to 2024 he served as President of the Master’s Degree Course in Advertising Communication, Storytelling and Visual Culture (Compsi – LM 92) at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. In 2017, he was Deputy Director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, and from 2009 to 2013 served as Rector’s Delegate for Internal and External Communication. As a member of the Academic Senate, he has been elected several times as a representative of the associate professors from 2011 to 2013 and for the 2021–2023 biennium, and was re-elected for 2023–2026. He was the director of the Master’s in Radio Hosting and Digital Media in collaboration with Radio Subasio (2010/2011) and of the Master’s in Information Architecture (2013/2014). He served as a member of the examination board for final assessments of the PhD School in Cinema in its Interrelations with Theater and the Other Arts (XXIV and XXV cycles) at Roma Tre University (2014). From 2008 to 2013, he was a member of the PhD board in the History of Political Parties and Movements at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo.” He later joined the faculty board of the PhD in Humanistic Cultures at the same university (2013–2016). For the 2016/2017 academic year, he was a member of the examination board for the International PhD in Audiovisual Studies: Cinema, Music and Communication at the University of Udine (XXVIII and XXIX cycles), and later at the University of Nantes (2020) and the University of Oviedo (2020). At the Dams of Roma Tre University, he was in charge of the “Radio and Television Information” module in the Master’s in Contemporary Professions and Forms of Radio and Television (2005/2006/2007/2008). He has taught in the Master’s in Communication and Information for Public Administrations (2003/2004), in the Master’s in Communication for Food and Wine, Agro-Food Industries at the University of Siena (2004/2005), in Journalism at IULM University of Milan (2003/2004), and in the Master’s in Journalistic Criticism at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts “Silvio d’Amico” in Rome (2012/2013/2014). He has delivered lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, and presentations internationally at the Universities of Oviedo, Bergen, Malta, Nantes, Vilnius, Warsaw, Tallinn.